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Ancient Astronaut Theory and Racism
I've blogged before about how the theory of ancient aliens being responsible for the monumental building of ancient Egypt and other contemporaneous civilizations is inherently racist. The idea is basically that the humans of Egypt and these other cultures were simply...
FringePop321 Video: Did the Israelites Build the Pyramids?
Some readers will recall I blogged about this in 2016. Now there's a FringePop321 video on the subject!
Wave of Egyptian Nephilim Paleobabble Headed Our Way
I just saw a news story about a 2,000 year-old sarcophagus discovered in Alexandria, Egypt. The coffin dates to the Ptolemaic era (ca. 305-30 BC). News articles have dutifully noted that the sarcophagus is 8.5 feet long. I'm trembling with excitement over what is sure...
New Evidence Neither Aliens Nor Nephilim Were Needed to Build the Pyramids
It made me sad to even have to type that post heading. But let's face it. It's news to a lot of people. Headlines of this sort have been drawing a lot of attention in recent days: Ancient Papyrus Reveals How The Great Pyramid Of Giza Was Built. It's significant news....
Naked Bible Podcast Episode 158: The Fate of the Ark of the Covenant
The Ark of the Covenant is well-known because of the popular Indiana Jones movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark. That pop culture film offers just one of over a dozen theories on what happened to the Ark of the Covenant. The question arises because the ark is not one of the...
Naked Bible Podcast Episode 146: Ezekiel 32
Ezekiel 32 is a lament for the empire of Egypt, whose hubris was compared to a rebellious divine council member in the previous chapter (one of the “trees” of God’s garden in Lebanon/Eden). This episode focuses on two items in the chapter. Early in the chapter, the...
Ben Carson and the Pyramids
James Tabor has a short, interesting piece over on the Huffington Post about where Dr. Ben Carson's idea that the pyramids were the storehouses Joseph built to hold grain. It's worth a read, though I have some correctives to offer to both Drs. Tabor and Carson. First,...
Did Ancient Egyptians Identify Themselves as a Black Race?
I know I blogged about this recently, but I came across the item below today and thought I'd post it now instead of later. As to the question in the post title .... Short answer: No. Anyone who has look at Egyptian art knows that Egyptians portrayed foreigners as that...
Aliens, the Sphinx, and Fantastic Archaeology
Jason Colavito has another telling and humorous review of the latest Ancient Aliens episode from season 7. Jason's review starts this way: Tonight’s exceptionally boring episode of Ancient Aliens, S07E07 “Mysteries of the Sphinx,” takes us back in time—to the 1990s,...
Genesis 1-2 as Polemic
Cris Putnam, the force behind the Logos Apologia website, has recently blogged about how the creation stories of Genesis 1-2 target ancient Egyptian creation myths. The impetus behind Cris' efforts is a recent book entitled, In the Beginning... We Misunderstood:...
Egyptology Journals and Books Available Online
The list located here was compiled for the Egyptologists' Electronic Forum (EEF), so this isn't the library from Wackytown. A lot of good stuff here for anyone interested in ancient Egypt.
Jason Colavito on “The Emerald Tablets of Thoth”
The emerald tablets of the Egyptian god Thoth have an honored place in paleobabble about ancient Egypt. Purported to be secret wisdom from Egypt (i.e., the kind of think Graham Hancock substitutes for real historical records), they're just occult (theosophy) woo-woo....
Just in Time for Christmas: David C. Brown’s Catalogue for Books in Egyptology and Other Ancient Near Eastern Studies
David C. Brown / Oxbow Books is perhaps the "go to" site and catalog for finding books related to ancient Egypt, Mesopotamian, Israel, and other civilizations of the ancient Near East. They have hundreds of titles in each area -- lots of stuff you won't find anywhere...
Spinning “Posessed” Egyptian Statue Mystery Solved
Sorry, folks. Turns out the Egyptian statue that mysteriously rotates in its case isn't possessed. Nor does it contain mystical alien energy. Try and contain your surprise.